Wrapping up the house altar. Hm, god statues. What to wrap them in? Oh, I know, t-shirts!

Wait, I better make sure they're appropriate t-shirts.

Okay, Ganesh goes in "magically delicious".

Kali into Jack Skellington,

and Thoth - obfuscated Perl.

Tee hee.

<--punchy

This is probably the best information I've yet found about Tara.

( some highlights and context )

It never fails to amaze me how well being Priestess in the Mass serves to banish any and all vestiges of illness....

...for precisely the duration of the ritual and no longer.

*goes back to hacking up a lung*

From sol_et_luna:

"Magick is just poking at reality with a stick to see how it'll react."

Let me riff for a moment on the concept of the Thelemic New Year.

For those not familiar with the Thelemic calendaring system, it runs in cycles of 22 years, and the new year starts on the vernal equinox. The year is represented by two numbers, the number of cycles and the number within the cycle. The year that finished yesterday was IV:xv; the ( Read more... )

And oh, the kewlness if this could be worked into a ritual...

How to make fireballs (video; doesn't require audio)

I've been pondering what to write in more detail about my ordination. I could give the specifics of the ceremony (what I remember, anyway - large parts of it are somewhat blurry). I could say how the Mass afterwards felt, which was certainly remarkable, but from a skeptical point of view the differences could as easily be attributed to the large ( Read more... )

More detail later, perhaps, once I let it settle in a bit. But it was everything I had hoped for and more.

I am an ordained Priestess of Ecclesia Gnostica Catholica.

Robes repaired ( Read more... )

While most of the book's "twists" came as no real surprise, I do love the bit right near the end where [REDACTED] paraphrases Lon Duquette.

"It's all in your head - you just have no idea how big your head really is."